Free diet tips and weight loss tips for women. My dieting tips and beauty secrets may help you lose weight slowly and keep the weight off. Losing weight quickly may not be the way to go – keep reading to find out why rapid weight loss is not good for beauty

My diet tips have little to do with diets and more to do with how to eat healthy for less (so you don’t have to go on an expensive diet plan). I don’t claim to be a diet advisor so these are just a few of my own personal dieting tips that I follow, and may be of interest to women reading this who wonder how I stay in svelte shape on a budget.

The most common beauty dilemma (physical dissatisfaction women have about their body) that I hear of is that of diet and weight. Women want to lose weight fast, like overnight. Fat weight loss, quick weight loss, and instant weight loss is the goal! FYI The fastest way to lose weight may not be the best way to lose weight. Why? Because losing weight fast involves cutting calories and food to lose fat, and these diets are hard to maintain. Once you go off the lose weight diet, you stand a good chance of gaining the weight right back again. Rapid weight gain and loss is not good for aging skin. Cellulite, loose skin and stretch marks (all of which can be exacerbated by rapid weight gain or loss) are inherently bad for your body beauty.

Lose weight quick versus lose weight easy

Every time I talk to a woman that wants to lose weight, I am serious … she says she wants to lose weight fast and if it doesn’t happen quickly she loses patience with the diet. I’m serious! Keep reading and I will explain how the need for speed could really be messing you up! To lose weight fast you have to go on a really intense diet and that is going to drive you to want to cheat on your diet. While fast weight loss can jump start a weight loss effort, it’s the long term healthy diet (and if you are able to sustain it) after wards that truly matters.

Quick weight loss

If we were Kim Kardashian, we could afford a diet nutritionist and cook that would market for us, prepare our food for us, and then serve it up to us! But this type of celebrity weight loss requires a great deal of control, planning and preparation time that many of us just don’t have. You might be able to lose 15 pounds quickly, but the preparation and discipline involved is not what I would characterize as easy. Celebrity weight loss plans are typically quick, but not easy to implement (shopping, preparation & cooking) and maintain all by oneself. Quick weight loss is for famous people who have the time, dedication and money to go on special diets. While you may lose weight on specialized diet meal plans in the short term, you learn nothing about how to maintain that weight loss and healthier nutrition and eating habits in the long run. Since we don’t have a celebrity trainer feeding us, we have to figure it all out on our own.

Let me let you in on a health and beauty secret. I don’t think quick weight loss is practical for the every day woman on a budget like me (with no nutritionist, cook, etc). I don’t have the time, energy or money to deal with it. So I came up with a different way of losing weight and/or maintaining an optimal weight that works for me and my low budget, busy single mom lifestyle. I personally prefer what I call my easy and cheap weight loss approach. Easy weight loss (by my definition) means it’s easy for me. The diet is precisely this: I eat pretty normally, while nimbly side stepping the typical diet pitfalls. I also get exercise by either walking or going to the gym several times a week.

While I am not a celebrity, I will give you this dieting beauty secret that my simple steps can help you lose weight without having to spend a lot of time or money. If it works for me, maybe some of my diet and weight loss tricks will work for you too. Minded, I am not a dietician or nutritionist. But I am healthy for my age and have the knack for keeping my weight healthy and maintaining it. These diet tips don’t involve any special cooking or preparation either! The hardest part is the “nimbly side stepping the diet pitfalls” part. Here is what I do and exactly how I do it:

Diet Tip #1: Eat breakfast

Never skip breakfast because it is the one meal that fills you up for the day! If you don’t like breakfast food first thing in the morning try pushing it a little later in the morning. I found that eating breakfast decreases the chance of breaking ones diet in the afternoon (e.g. after work). Eat something substantial. I might eat a large bowl of cereal, or several pieces of whole wheat toast with smart balance butter and some fruit, etc. If you like a later breakfast try whole grain toast with melted avocado, cheese, tomato and onion, or a light veggie omelet in a whole wheat tortilla with salsa.

Diet Tip #2: Eat a hearty lunch

I like to eat a pretty big lunch. Be careful though because if your lunch is too heavy it can get you too loaded down and make you sleepy in the afternoon. I love sandwich type food. Salads are too complicated and taste horrible without the fattening dressing. I eat salads only on occasion. For lunch try eating hearty and healthy sandwiches on wheat and load them with veggies. Panini and grilled veggie or meatball sandwich’s are greasy. Better to stick with dried sandwiches or even a burger over things drenched in oil. Again, eat something good. I personally think a large veggie Subway sandwich or a small one with baked chips is more filling and satisfying than say, one tiny Lean Cuisine. If you eat too little you tend too get ravenous in the afternoon. I also like avocadoes or guacamole with healthier baked chips.

Diet Tip #3: Eat a light weight dinner

I tend to eat a pretty light dinner. Sometimes I will just cook some kind of veggies. Dinner is the meal where you can overload on things like starchy food, heavy pastas, red meat, etc if you aren’t careful. Try to keep dinner the lightest of all your meals, and consume it as early in the evening as possible. Go for veggies and some lean meat like chicken or fish. Some stores carry pre-packaged veggies that you just throw in the microwave to eat, which are great. Even though they cost a bit more, prep time is zero. Preparing a whole dinner is most time consuming yet just a veggie like micro-waved yams or broccoli, artichokes etc is not so bad to make on its own. Dinner is the one daily meal where you want to keep it on the dietetic side.

Diet Tip #4: Eat two-three meals a day

I read all of the time to eat six meals a day that are small and separated out over the course of a few hours. I understand the gist of this and that it may keep you satiated, etc. But this just is not normal too me and is way too diet like. I find it easier to just go for standard 2-3 meals a day that are bigger, with snacks here and there but only if you get hungry for them. Try to make the snacks healthy like fruit or a few nuts, some grain crackers with light cheese.

Diet Tip #5: Cut out heavy fried foods

In general try to avoid fried foods. The greasy and the fat saturated fry oil add on trans fats and unhealthy heart clog to your diet. Things like fried chicken, greasy Chinese food, French fries, fatty red meats like streak and ribs, etc are fat magnets and bad for your waist line and heart. Stick to baked or grilled foods and try for lean meats instead of fattier red meats. Avoid oily foods and if there is oil, you’ll want it to be the healthier olive oil with unsaturated fat. Vegan food is best but if you have to eat some meats and dairy to be happy in life go for the nonfat dairy and light and lean lunch meats such as grilled chicken. Non-fat dairy and some lean meats in your diet also make it easy to get in your protein.

Diet Tip #6: Cut out processed fatty foods

Try to avoid doughy and sugar laden foods and seriously processed foods like cinnamon rolls, heavy white breads, cakes, junk food, donuts, etc. Just reducing the convenience store foods with this type of refined sugar alone can cut tons of calories and useless unhealthy food out. Go for baked versions of things like chips. Cut back on fatty meats. Another tip is to avoid excess butter and unnecessary fat by switching to things like smart balance light butter.

Diet Tip #6: Cut out sugar drinks

Sugar drinks add needless calories. Beware of sugar sodas and high calorie sports drinks. Drink water, iced teas, or diet soda instead. If you have coffee drinks make sure to get it with non-fat milk or fat-free creamer.

Diet Tip #7: Cut back on white starches

High carb starchy heavy foods like white pasta, white noodles, white potatoes, breads, dinner rolls, etc can load you down and add excess calories. Stick to whole wheat or whole grain versions of things and cut back on starchy food. When subjected to fast food, an occasional burger won’t kill you yet try to skip the fried French fries.

Diet Tip #8: Increase fruits and vegetables

Eat more fruits and vegetables, and make it easy and pleasant on yourself to do so. Pre-cut fresh fruit platters can be worth the cost because it’s ready to go and therefore more likely to be eaten. I’m not a fan of cold vegetables but steamed veggies are good. Cooked veggies require a tiny bit of prep-time which is well worth it. To ameliorate time spent on veggies, instant fruit at least saves time. Fast (easy to prepare) fruit like blueberries, strawberries, and cherries when in season are also fast and easy to snack on. Slower (requires cutting fruit up) fruit like melons are more time consuming to cut up and take more motivation so fruit platter versions of those melons, mangos and kiwis can be worth the luxury expense.

Diet Tip #9: Choose whole wheat

Try whole wheat bread and if that tastes too boring, go for whole grain or oat nut variants. Try to find healthier versions of bread. Those tiny little pieces of light diet bread are too light weight. Go for substantial whole wheat bread. The idea is to wean yourself off all the white doughy stuff and convert toward breads with whole grain content and fiber.

Diet Tip #10: Break your diet within reason

If you try to stick too hard on a diet, you can get overly tempted by treats and wind up going way far off track when you break it. So you must allow for some treats within reason. A double scoop of Rite Aid ice-cream or Ben and Jerry’s light should not be the end of the world. Try to stay away from cakes and processed junk food. Some chocolate with nuts or a bit of licorice, an occasional chocolate chip cookie, light ice cream, and other little diet breaks should not be condemned. Anything you are really, really tempted by should be tossed into your diet on occasion for good measure. If you give yourself some slack and lee-way you will find it easier to stay on your healthier eating track.

Diets don’t work that well, just try to shift towards healthier eating habits

I hope that my tips to lose weight can help give you some good motivation and weight loss ideas and get you on the right track towards a healthy you! Remember that the quickest way to lose weight may not be the best or most effective way to lose weight in the end. If you lose weight quick then gain it back, the quick thing really didn’t work. Follow sensible tips that you can implement for a lifetime, and I promise that your weight loss will come quickly enough and be more effective in the end. Dieting goes hand in hand with exercise. So if you plan on losing weight for real, try to add in moderate, safe low impact exercise (like walking) along with implementing the tips here. Let me know if my dieting tips worked out for you!

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